Now, you need to edit a new .kbm file (keyboard mapping) in order to choose your special tuning reference.

Something like this should work:

! F tuning
!
! Size of map. The pattern repeats every so many keys:
12
! First MIDI note number to retune:
0
! Last MIDI note number to retune:
127
! Middle note where scale degree 0 is mapped to:
65
! Reference note for which frequency is given (60 = middle c):
65
! Frequency to tune the above note to (floating point e.g. 440.0):
349.2220
! Scale degree to consider as formal octave (determines difference in pitch
! between adjacent mapping patterns):
12
! Mapping.
! The numbers represent scale degrees mapped to keys. The first degree is for
! the given middle note, the next for subsequent higher keys.
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Load this file in Keymap and you're done.

You can do lots of cool things with kbm files, like mirror your keyboard:
Left-handed piano !

Nikos

I'm interested in doing some microtonal work on the
Pianoteq, and have been impressed with both what I've
seen and heard, and also with the various example tunings
I can load. I hope you won't mind a few questions.

I use Scala to do my tunings, but heretofore I've used
versions of a scala file that lists every single MIDI
key number and an associated pitch. To make a long story
short, it kind of looks like this:

; the standard gregory tuning
;
;
[Exact Tuning]
note 0= 1286.421047
note 1= 1313.685139
.
.
.
note 126= 13082.511045
note 127= 13201.953854

This doesn't seem to work very well with Pianoteq,
so I thought I'd ask about making things that *do*
work.

Briefly put, here's what the scale I use looks like.
It's tuned from F natural and uses the following
ratios:

f - 1/1 (349.222)
f# - 21/20
g - 11/10
g# - 9/8
a - 6/5
a# - 27/20
b - 7/5
c - 3/2
c# - 63/40
d - 8/5
d# - 33/20
e - 9/5

It looks as though many of the example files are
tuned from c natural, so my first run was to figure
that I could recalculate what these ratios would be
using 3 as the base for ratios. After some quality
math time, I think I get this:

! my scale from f (starting from c)
!
My scale
12
!
21/20
16/15
11/10
6/5
4/3
7/5
22/15
3/2
8/5
9/5
28/15
2/1

which seems to load and run.

My question is:

Is there a way to create a scala-style file
that preserves the F at 349.22 and calculates
the ratios from that?

Thanks in advance for your help,
gregory taylor